Brad Pitt Is Now a Furniture Designer, Creator of 24K-Gold Side Tables and Bathtubs for Two

In addition to raising six children, maintaining Oscar-nominated acting and producing careers, and posing as the first male face of Chanel No. 5, Brad Pitt is now producing his own collection of luxury furniture. Pitt, who’s “been doodling ideas . . . since the early 1990s,” will debut a dozen finished pieces from November 13 through November 15 in New York, according to an article in Architectural Digest. Designed in collaboration with Frank Pollaro, who owns a handmade-furniture firm, the collection will include (from least to most sexy): several club chairs, a dining table, a glass-top side table with a metal base finished in 24-karat gold, and bathtub for two (!) in Statuario Venato marble. Also: an “ocean liner of a bed,” as A.D. puts it, that commands a confusing description for anyone who purchases most of her furniture from Ikea or Craigslist. (It’s a king-sized bed with a cantilevered bench, exposed nickel trusses, integrated shagreen footpads, and, hopefully, an explanation of what integrated shagreen foot pads are. Only nine will be made.)

Although the article does not specify prices, Pollaro does enigmatically note that his pieces typically sell “at the highest end of the custom-furnishings scale, and these will be up there, even north of that.” If they become mass produced in the future, however, “[t]he same chair we charge $45,000 for might sell for a fraction of that,” he says.

As proof of Brad Pitt’s involvement, which Architectural Digest notes was incremented in meetings that lasted “anywhere from seven to ten hours,” the magazine provides a photo of a noticeably bleary-eyed and messily pony-tailed Pitt poring over sketches with a nearly empty glass of red wine at his side. Earlier this year, Pitt collaborated on the design of another luxury item: a diamond engagement ring for his fiancée, Angelina Jolie. That Pitt co-design—estimated to be worth $500,000—has been mass-produced, however. A cubic-zirconia impersonator retails for $34.